The single most important Christmas present
These days it just has to be batteries these days as just about all the other presents require them.
Of course, the snag is that there are just loads of different types of battery around. Most of the time AA batteries will do the trick but as things get smaller it’s becoming more common to need AAA batteries.
But once you’ve settled on the size there are loads of different types of each size of battery around. Cheap batteries are seriously cheap these days if you buy the own brand from the supermarket but that cheapness means that they don’t last too long and use older technology (generally zinc carbon) which means there’s a fair chance of them leaking out and ruining your devices. At the other end of the price range, usually, are the rechargeables. Or at least some of them because lots of them have taken quite a dive in price too. Granted, if you buy the cheapest ones, they won’t last nearly so long as alkaline or lithium ones but then they generally don’t need to as you can recharge them.
And then there are the little tiny round batteries. The versions of these seem to be selected pretty much at random by the manufacturers. Having said that, I have seen recently a really cheap pack of 40 assorted ones in a discount shop which might be worth picking up if you see it: the entire pack cost about the same as two of the batteries within it bought from a normal shop!
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